Trump pledged to make the world safer

When Donald Trump was right as an American president for the second time in January, he made a promise. “It will be the most proud legacy of the peace and equality maker,” he told his fans at home and beyond.

After that, after more than a hundred days, during his first foreign tour – which moved him to three rich Arab states – he boasted that he was good at this pledge. He said, referring to Ukraine: “I will tell you that the world is a safe place at the present time,” he said. “I think it is within two or three weeks, we can get a safer place.”

But how much progress achieved by the “best peacemaker in the world” that he self? Does Trump turn the world into a safer or more dangerous place?

There are many angles to answer.

It is difficult to ignore reality on Earth, perhaps in the most prominent conflicts in the world.

President Trump is proud to be the only one who can reach a deal with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin – but Russia is now bombing Ukraine with the largest number of drones and missiles Since its extensive invasion in 2022.

He has repeatedly called for a cease -fire in Gaza, but the hospital staff at the red cross this week say they are receiving the largest number of patients who suffer from weapons since they established their clinic more than a year ago.

On other fronts, however, there is some glimmer of light in the dark.

Nuclear talks between the United States and Iran are ongoing, which is pushed by an American president who insists that he wants to reach a good deal and avoid a bad devastating war.

It is expected that the next round of those talks, in which Oman mediates, will take place on Sunday, despite the existence of severe speculation that Israel may prepare its military strikes on Iran.

Syria has a greater opportunity to fight to address dangerous internal tensions, as well as deep poverty, after President Trump suddenly announced last month that punishing sanctions on the country will be lifted to urge his Saudi ally.

“It is the worst and best times,” David Harland, Executive Director of the Geneva Human Dialogue Center, which is based in Geneva, told me. “There are now more wars than ever in the world, but there are more conflicts on the negotiating table and others are moving forward.”

There is a fact in Trump’s claim that he only can bring some players to talk about peace. He is the only world leader that Putin and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu know, among other things, that they need to listen to him – or.

“You are betting, they are afraid of him,” said KT McFarland, a former Trump’s national security adviser who will join the BBC World Service about whether the president makes the world safer or more dangerous on Friday.

His slogan “Peace through Power” depends on his belief that his absolute strength of personality, bold threats and direct phone calls can end wars. He even said that he could end wars in one day – but it is clear that he did not.

However, Trump prompted Russian and Ukrainian officials to the negotiating table, but there was no significant progress that exceeded some important implications for the prisoners. President Putin does not show any signs that he is ready to end this dangerous war.

Trump’s threats to “hell to pay” helped Hamas, as well as pressure on Israel, in obtaining a ceasefire deal in Gaza on the line in January, even before the oath led his position on January 20. But the truce, which Trump described as “epic”, collapsed in March.

“It does not like to enter the details,” a Arab diplomat told me, equal to the president’s preference for quick deals in very complex conflicts.

“We all want deals, but we know that the deals do not work or do not last, if they are not peace deals, instead of the end of the war deals,” said Martin Griffiths, a former United Nations year, and is now the CEO of the International Mediation Group.

Trump, who is proud to be in the world, has distorted the skills of experienced professional diplomats. “They may know rivers, mountains and terrain, but they do not know how to make a deal,” he said.

Instead, his preference is the use of deals makers in his property world, and most of all his golf friend and former real estate lawyer and investor Steve Whitkov, who goes away with all the difficult and difficult files in Ukraine, Gaza, Iran, and more.

President Trump makes America great again exceeding individual deals. He has operated Roughshod through the global system based on bases that formulated the basis of global stability and security in the aftermath of World War II.

His repeated threats to control the Panama channel, buy Greenland, and convert Canada into the 51st American state, have surprised – fear – capitals around the world.

The sharp tariff imposed on both the ally and the deduction launched retaliatory taxes and fears of a global commercial war, while the old international alliances are striving.

But he also climbed others, including in the NATO Military Alliance – whose boss is now amplifying Washington for members to intensify their military spending significantly.

The US President also received the credit for the ceasefire between India and Pakistan, after days of cross -border strikes between the neighbors last month. The lag recent intervention of the United States is a big difference, but many other players have been transferred.

His approach to “America first” in business means that other conflicts, including the terrible murder fields in Sudan, do not sound loudly on its radar.

But the warring aspects in many regions are now flirting with it, and they are practicing their mineral wealth and investment capabilities as a bargaining chip. For example, the President’s Security Security Deal on the war, for example, has sparked a choir of concern that it does not address the root causes of the conflict.

The head of the International Crisis Group said: “If you can use a metal deal to end the decades of war, there are countries that would have already been achieved,” said the head of the International Crisis Group.

His administration’s discounts also led to the United Nations aid agencies, dismantling him to the US Aid Agency, as well as the depths of the suffering of displaced and marginalized in many areas and the exacerbation of tensions.

Just a few months after his second presidency, Trump’s frustration with the actors through the elements has issued threats to “pass” and avoid conflicts such as Ukraine.

Martin Griffiths, the former United Nations, told me, “The deals are taking forever.” “You have to start and you should stay.”

Discussing the BBC World Service – Does Donald Trump make the world safer or more dangerous?

The BBC World Service discusses the changing international scene during the Trump presidency. A committee of guests joins international international correspondents, Lais Dostit, to discuss whether the new emerging international system will make the world a safer place.

You can watch the discussion on the BBC news channel on 21: 00Bst on Friday 13 June It will be broadcast on BBC News. It will be broadcast on the BBC Radio 5live and World Service Radio on Saturday 14 June.